THE PALL MALL MAGAZINE: VOL. xiv: january to april 1898.
by Lord (edit). Hamilton Frederic
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD+/ND
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Bound* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1898* Publisher: Editorial and Publishing Office.* Binding and cover condition: Dull blue cloth, gilt title to face. Slight bumps & rubs to edges and corners, some severe marks to lower edge of front board. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Contains Lord Savile?s bookplate to front paste-down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, to end papers and margins. VG* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 160 pp. text. viii pp. index at front.* Description: The first quarter of the magazine for 1898, titled for the first article on ?Rufford Abbey.? This copy contains numerous articles, several stories, a piece on the History of the Gurkhas (part 2) and a really interesting section on ?The Evolution of Comfort in Railway Travelling,? which contains a number of line drawn designs of coaches and b/w photographs of carriages and some interiors.* A NEAR VG copy with some cover damage reducing it to GD. No dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4517
- Title
- THE PALL MALL MAGAZINE: VOL. xiv: january to april 1898.
- Author
- Lord (edit). Hamilton Frederic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Pall Mall Magazine
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 592
- Date Published
- 1898-01-01
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